>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf >Of Kai Schaetzl >Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:31 PM >To: centos at centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed > >> install windows xp then install easyBCD and make the dual boot work without >> changing any file on any OS. > >Of course you change files. But it works as well, yes, just checked it out. I >wasn't aware of this, although I have EasyBCD already installed on my Windows >7 netbook. However, if you do it this way you have to rely on the BCD boot >loader and the Vista partition. >I would recommend it if you use the Linux OS only irregularly. If it is your >main system using only the Linux-native boot loader surely is recommended. > >I'm not sure, but I think you will also need to have grub installed to the >Linux partition. So, if you installed it on the MBR it may fail to boot. I'm not sure what the plans are for these course-computers. I know though that linux will be used most of the time though, if irregularly. Maybe grub is better anyway. At least I'm more familiar with than the other bootloaders, sort of.. 8-} -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5106 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090417/ae995496/attachment-0005.bin>